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ATHENS, Ga. (AP) -- Freshman and third-string quarterback Levi Davis ran for a 2-point conversion in the third overtime to give Ohio a 29-27 victory over Jacksonville State on Saturday night.
Neither team scored in the first overtime and both kicked field goals in the second. After Davis ran in the conversion, Jacksonville State’s Cade Creel hit Darius Cannon with a pass but DJ James-Hamilton made the tackle just shy of the goal line. James-Hamilton also returned a kickoff 98 yards for a touchdown.
Davis entered the game with 1:49 left in regulation when second-stringer Matt Vezza was knocked out of the game after scrambling to the Gamecocks’ 3-yard line and the Bobcats (1-1) trailing 24-17. Davis scrambled just short of the goal line on his first collegiate play from scrimmage and Victor Rosa went over from there to tie the game.
Jacksonville State (1-2) drove down the field but Garrison Rippa’s 38-yard attempt was wide right at the end of regulation.
Vezza, a New Hampshire transfer, came in for Nick Poulos with Ohio trailing 14-0 early in the second quarter after a hard hit on Poulos that was ruled as targeting. Vezza threw one touchdown pass and directed the Bobcats until having to give way to Davis.
Creel threw for 265 yards and a score and ran for 120 more yards that included an 8-yard TD run in the first quarter.
The win was coach John Hauser’s first since having the interim tag removed after leading Ohio to a victory over UNLV in last year’s Frisco Bowl. The Bobcats have won 14 straight games at home, the second-longest active streak in FBS behind Indiana’s 15.
MARSHALL 28, MTSU 26
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) -- Xayvion Turner-Bradshaw caught a 69-yard touchdown pass and recovered a teammate’s fumble for the go-ahead touchdown as Marshall rallied past Middle Tennessee 28-26 on Saturday.
Marshall trailed 20-14 entering the fourth quarter before Zion Turner had the ball punched out near the goal line and Turner-Bradshaw recovered it for a touchdown with 12:06 remaining.
TJ Lester added a 2-yard touchdown run with 4:18 left to extend Marshall’s lead to 28-20.
Middle Tennessee pulled within two on Roman Gagliano’s 15-yard touchdown pass to AJ Jones with 50 seconds remaining, but the ensuing two-point conversion failed.
Carlos Del Rio-Wilson completed 7 of 8 passes for 92 yards and opened the scoring with the 69-yard touchdown to Turner-Bradshaw. He also scored on a 4-yard run in the second quarter.
Turner-Bradshaw finished with two catches for 79 yards.
Gagliano threw for 243 yards and two touchdowns and rushed for 58 yards. Cam’ron Lacy caught nine passes for 72 yards and a touchdown.
Middle Tennessee kicker Dominic Bourgeois made a career-long 52-yard field goal in the second quarter, tied for the fifth-longest in school history.